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by gmueckl 4y ago
SVN is still simply unsurpassed by any other open source version control I know when it comes to the handling of large files and fine grained access control. The truth is that git is pretty abysmal overall. There are commercial offerings th
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by gmueckl 4y ago
IANAL. I am looking at a copy of OGL 1.0a and find this paragraph: 9. Updating the License: Wizards or its designated Agents may publish updated versions of this License. You may use any authorized version of this License to copy, mod
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by gmueckl 4y ago
It's a bit more complex than that. Hardware raytracing is still so slow that it requires sophisticated ray allocation and denoising schemes to look good. These are where the real implementation effort goes in all contemporary hardware
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Moving experienced team leads out of their (presumed) area of expertise seems like a strange reaction to me. Everybody loses if that's true.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
That's still no reason to keep Metal alive and ignore Vulkan. It's a huge competitive disadvantage by now. Put Metal on live support, implement Vulkan and transition to sit on a Vulkan translation layer. Profit!
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by gmueckl 4y ago
That's exactly why the source code cannot be open to hacking by random people who suddenly wake up to a feeling of being qualified to work on something like that. There's a a general attitude of overconfidence among software devel
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Are you a lawyer? Did you ever talk to one about an issue you had? You'd be amazed how much wiggle room for action a good lawyer can find on an issue that seems cut and dry at first.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
The design, documentation and especially source code should only be ever made available to entities with the knowledge and skill to maintain these implants safely and purely for the benefit of the users. If any random Joe Garage Hacker can
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Static typing in .NET saves developer time on a massive scale. Sure, the compile times and startup times may be longer (and tests may take longer to run for that reason), but the languages also allow for editor/IDE tooling that boosts
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Hm, my recollection may be wrong here, but I think that the transition from the Clinton to the Bush administration changed how the DoJ approached the case and allowed the settlement to happen. It was my impression at the time that the Clint
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Your point is stronger than you probably think: there are entire countries where ad-supported smartphone apps are the only really viable way of communicating for the majority of people because things like normal phone calls or text messages
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Around 2000? Hm... didn't the big Microsoft antitrust case get its teeth pulled by political influence around that time?
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Yes, well, the fact is that only a teeny tiny fraction of indie games gets even the remote possibility of a glimmer of a hope of achieving something even closely resembling any kind of popularity. The vast majority of game releases on Steam
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by gmueckl 4y ago
You have to draw a line somewhere, I guess. As far as I remember, protections against accidental misuse and foreseeable abuse of a device are required in medical equipment. But malicious circumvention of protections or any kind of active ta
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by gmueckl 4y ago
I can't see how you can make out a strawman in what I said. There are medical devices where the UI is running on a processor separate from the controller in charge of the core device functions. The two are talking to each other and the
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Yes, but why would you go to these lengths? The purpose of the whole mechanism is to prevent accidental misdiagnosis based on an incorrectly interpreted X-ray image. This isn't DRM, just a safeguard against incorrect use of equipment.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
I didn't work on that specific software team and it has been a long time since I worked there. But the software came with its custom calibration routine and I believe that the calibration result was stored with model and serial number
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Note the electrified third rail in the photos. It's not safe to walk there before that rail is disconnected.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
It is not a peripheral device if it runs the UI with all the main controls, is it?
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Then you should know that the use of SOUP is not so clear cut. It depends on the class of device and more specifically, on the part of the device that the software is used on. I know medical devices running SOUP operating systems like Lin
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by gmueckl 4y ago
That's not the case in the EU. I've worked for an equipment manufacturer for dental clinics. While the monitors were allowed to be off the shelf, the operator (dental clinic) is required to make sure that they work properly and di
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Stopping a train in the tube between stations is not safe. You can't get off the train safely between stations. Most help can't reach a train stuck in a tube.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Failing may require triggering some actions actively. Going inert is not the right way in many cases. Some system absolutely require best efforts in the face of failure. A fire alarm in an otherwise secure and locked down facility may have
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Yes. You could still hard reset after the error is reported if you wanted to. And if system availability matters, a hardware watchdog would handle the case where the error handling doesn't finish.
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by gmueckl 4y ago
The error handler is the kernel. Whatever code runs to dump the panic somewhere must rely on some sort of device driver, which in turn must depend on other kernel subsystems and possibly other drivers to work. There is an enormous variati
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by gmueckl 4y ago
Do you know absolutely every medical device in existence and do you know how broad the definition of a medical device is (including e.g. the monitor attached to the PC used for displaying X-ray images)?
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by gmueckl 4y ago
I'd like to have a different tiny change in the "Song Radio" feature: if you start playing that playlist, skip the song it's based on if it was recently played or is currently playing. It's mildly annoying when you
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by gmueckl 4y ago
My position is mostly based on Brian Moriarty's Apology for Roger Ebert, by the way. I also define art mostly the presence of an intent that an artist wants to convey to the audience that goes beyond the immediate form. Somewhere along
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by gmueckl 4y ago
You must separate the game from its presentation when considering game as art. Chess figurines can be artful, but that does not mean that the act of playing them becomes art. That same separation translates to Braid and The Witness: how is
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by gmueckl 4y ago
But is the actual game, as in, taking actions obeying a premade set of rules, art? That is the essence of every game. We use various representations, physical or virtual, for representing the game. Yet, the representation is not the game.

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